Surfing a GS20?

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  • Evening Shade
    1,000 Post Club Member
    • Apr 2015
    • 1295

    • Martinez, GA/Lake Greenwood, SC

    • 2017 GS20 Previous: 2011 SAN 210, 2007 Malibu Wakesetter 23LSV, 1995 Cobalt 200

    #46
    Originally posted by Last Mango View Post
    Thank you for the response. This concerns me. I am buying a surf boat to be able to surf, and hope it's not too difficult. Mos tof the time I am able to drop the rope on the landlock board behind an Axis A20, and I'm not a very accomplished rider. We'll see what happens behind the XT20, then the GS20.
    Be sure to post your impression of all 3 boats on here. A comparison based on your experience with all three.
    2007 Malibu Wakesetter 23 LSV, 1995 Cobalt 200

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    • Last Mango
      • Jun 2019
      • 25

      • Windermere, FL

      • 2019 GS20

      #47
      Will do.

      The board I bought is a big guy beginner board, at 5'9", so that helps. My hope is that once I get better, I can use a little more performance oriented board, to begin getting more aggressive, but that could be a while.

      Cheers,
      James

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      • Evening Shade
        1,000 Post Club Member
        • Apr 2015
        • 1295

        • Martinez, GA/Lake Greenwood, SC

        • 2017 GS20 Previous: 2011 SAN 210, 2007 Malibu Wakesetter 23LSV, 1995 Cobalt 200

        #48
        Originally posted by Last Mango View Post
        Thank you for the response. This concerns me. I am buying a surf boat to be able to surf, and hope it's not too difficult. Mos tof the time I am able to drop the rope on the landlock board behind an Axis A20, and I'm not a very accomplished rider. We'll see what happens behind the XT20, then the GS20.
        Btw, make note of the bow rise with each boat while driving with surf settings activated. I think you will notice that the A20 and XT20 have MUCH more bow rise than the GS20. Minimal bow rise is sort of a hallmark of Nautique boats while surfing. Bow rise may not bother some people but its a big deal to others. It can be so bad with some boats that it obscures the drivers vision to the point of being dangerous, especially with shorter drivers.
        2007 Malibu Wakesetter 23 LSV, 1995 Cobalt 200

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        • idahosan
          • Jun 2012
          • 171

          • Boise/McCall, Idaho

          • 05 196 22 T220

          #49
          Make sure to note the fit and finish, as well as the engineering that went into each boat. Look under and around everything. If you are willing to spring for a GS20, I’m guessing you won’t be impressed with the Axis. Not saying that to be a snob, as I owned a 2014 A22. Nautique and axis are two completely different levels and I would bet there is a big price gap as well. I don’t know much about the xt20.

          Evening Shade I second the bow rise. As soon as my wife drove a gs22 she was sold. I couldn’t go back if I wanted to.

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          • Tigerxj
            • Sep 2020
            • 79

            • SC


            #50
            apologies in advance for necromancing a year old thread...
            we picked up a lightly used 91 hour 2017 GS20 this past weekend, and got a few hours in it sunday afternoon.

            I'm curious to know what percentage of GS20 owners have added ballast, either in bags or lead, and what percentage use factory settings. I hope to develop the wave/skills enough to leave it factory because we really like the storage we have in those lockers. At the same time, I haven't sourced a local outfit where we can demo boards, so we are riding a Liquid Force Rocket 5'0", we are all under 175lbs.

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            • Last Mango
              • Jun 2019
              • 25

              • Windermere, FL

              • 2019 GS20

              #51
              Prior to buying it I surfed our boat one time stock. It worked, but the wave didn't have as much push as I would have liked. In all fairness, I was a new surfer. We had them install 800 lbs of ballast bags in the aft lockers prior to delivery. Sometimes we don't fill them for smaller/lighter surfers. Lead is a good option if you want to maintain storage, but then of course the lead is along for that ride, even when not surfing. If you only boat on your smaller lake, you can always swing by your dock and drop the lead. But I doubt that's the case, as you said storage was a concern. We regularly store items on top of the bags if we are on a pleasure ride and not surfing. Cheers, James

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